Ahmed Al-Yahri

Southern Writer

“Money you have is means to freedom. But money you seek is a means to slavery”
J. J. Russo
Are countries like charities? Do they provide poor countries with money for nothing? Do they finance political organizations and wars abroad for nothing? Only a humble citizen, or a poor politician, believes in “for nothing” grants. They advocate this by saying that this or that country likes us, or something like that.
Political truth indicates that every single penny spent abroad will return to its donor in several ways, including political and economic benefits, sooner or later. Countries do not grant money “for nothing”. Donors have the power to influence the political decision and force projects. Even in politics, money talks. Those who receive money are the weak part of the equation as they can’t force their agendas. Instead, they accept others’ terms. You can be used for a while to serve certain political purposes. After that, you can be dumped as long as you don’t serve the long-term expectations of your donors.
Three types of persons can benefit from that:
• A poor politician: This is the one who thinks in grants as charities for friendship or brotherhood. This type, unknowingly, serves others’ agendas.
• A mercenary politician: This type is a money seeker for personal interests. He doesn’t care about the source or conditions of donors as long as he gets paid. He has no ethics, values or morale. This type, willingly, serves all agendas to sustain his monetary interests.
• A smart politician: This type deals with changes in stages, according the the principle of “No Permanent Friend and No Permanent Enemy”. He benefits from changing conditions and deals with all parties, according to the stage, to serve an organization or body. He doesn’t believe in “Granting for Free”. He deals pragmatically with donors without turning himself into a tool.
When Money Talks, Honesty Keeps Silent!!
]]>https://en.smanews.org/tools-of-regional-subordination-money/feed0How to Solve it?https://en.smanews.org/how-to-solve-it
https://en.smanews.org/how-to-solve-it#respondSat, 11 Aug 2018 22:50:21 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7696

Dr. Mohamed Hammam Ben Hammam

Professor of financial and banking administration
Aden university

Yemeni Riyal deteriorated to the limit of 560 vs US Dollar without being available to buyers as exchange offices are closed, illegal exchange operations, high demands and lack of indicators for stopping this collapse.
Everyone asks about solutions for high prices, poor services, currency deterioration, economic collapse …etc. Unfortunately, they demand answers for tens of question as if this will be solved by Moses Wand!!
In response to these persistent questions, we have to discuss facts, describe reality, diagnose the problem roots and components and suggest solutions through inclusive mechanism. In short, this can be done via two equations, the first represents the problem while the second represents the solution.
First of all, where is the problem. The problem can not be limited to deterioration of Yemeni Riyal and economic collapse as both are results of several wrong acts and decisions in addition to lack of responsibility and efficiency. Several negative factors accumulated over time as several bodies are responsible for them. these factors led to economic collapse. The most prominent factors responsible for that are: Presidency’s lack of political will + elimination of well-qualified persons + lack of censorship and accountability + low personal, ethical and religious standards + halt of production cycle + lack of currency reserve + extensive printing of national currency + high prices of goods and services + high rates of inflation + low exchange prices of Yemeni Riyal in front of other currencies = economic collapse.
These are the roots of the problem. So, can it be solved so that the national economy can heal? Or is the solution limited to Saudi deposit, support of electricity and fuel, formation of economic commission, declaring illusionary projects, magic solutions of social media or anything else?
Second, the solution is in correcting these mistakes and breaking up this iron ring through reformulating its components via synchronous inclusive measures and clear executive mechanisms so that we can reach economic stability and then welfare. We actually need bold decisions away from favoritism and sectarianism to reformulate tasks, responsibilities and authorities on all levels, starting from the presidency and the government, passing through the executive and censorship systems and finally reaching all components of the society. This is clear in the following equation: Effective presidency + efficient government + qualified and specialized personnel + active censorship and accountability system with punishments + high standards of personal, ethical, social and religious responsibility + active production cycle in all sectors + active banking cycle with censorship to increase customers’ trust + control and improve incomes + decrease expenses + support of currency reserve + control of liquid money cycling and printing + control of goods and services prices + good command over inflation + increase of Riyal value = Stable economy, economic development and welfare.
Do we have the will to take decisions and measures to solve the problem? History of human civilizations indicated that massive achievements always require massive sacrifices. Can we expect reform decisions starting with presidency and government?
]]>https://en.smanews.org/how-to-solve-it/feed0Revolution of the Hungry Starts!!https://en.smanews.org/revolution-of-the-hungry-starts
https://en.smanews.org/revolution-of-the-hungry-starts#respondWed, 08 Aug 2018 20:32:31 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7622

Gamal Al-Radfani

Southern Writer

The spark of a real revolution against corruption and corrupt persons broke as a natural result of the people’s suffering. Citizens suffered the bitter torture of governmental corruption while the presidency and the coalition are unjustifiably silent. This is the spark of a real revolution that can’t be put off. Instead, it will grow bigger like a snowball that will never stop till all corrupts are eliminated and this miserable situation is changed into a better reality that serves citizens.
We should support, direct and protect our youth and at the same time we should be with them as a solid base for their demands without being embarrassed of the Arab Coalition, our partners in victory, but they should not hinder citizens’ demands. Instead, they should support these demands as silence will not ratify corruption and this is not in favor of any party. If we are seeking a real victory in the south that represents a positive example for the north to move and expel mercenaries and coup forces supported by Iran to end the war and reconstruct the country. All powers should have a real representation with a unified south ruled by his sons.
Does our leadership realize the seriousness and importance of this stage so as not to let this spark goes off? If it goes off, another spark will require a very long time to break in. and if it is not directed it will spread madly and destroy everything, letting some powers to pursuit their self-interests without serving the south security, stability and real goals of the people who struggle for achieving them since 2007.
]]>https://en.smanews.org/revolution-of-the-hungry-starts/feed0The Great Failure of Hady’s Legitimacy and His Governmenthttps://en.smanews.org/the-great-failure-of-hadys-legitimacy-and-his-government
https://en.smanews.org/the-great-failure-of-hadys-legitimacy-and-his-government#respondWed, 08 Aug 2018 20:13:43 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7618

Zaky Othman

International Expert

Recent developments in Aden confirm that Hady’s government not only failed in ending Al-Houthi coup in Sanaa but also lost its supporters in Aden. It is now amid direct confrontation with the southern people. A confrontation that the southern transitional council can not be considered as a direct party in.
The current situation in Aden asserts that Hady’s legitimacy and his government are now expired. Following developments may create a new political reality in the Yemeni crisis that may complicate the UN envoy’s mission, based on decision no. 2216 to help all parties reach a peaceful solution to end Al-Houthi coup and return to political path. These recent developments in Aden may surprise the UN envoy to Yemen with a reality where Hady is not part of the negotiation table.
Is it the time to fold Hady’s miserable page, just as Saleh’s page was folded last year? Is it necessary that this situation will create a new political reality that may help reaching a peace agreement among equal powers on the ground?
The long-term conflict in Yemen led to deep changes in the internal structure of allies among conflicting powers in Yemen. Unfortunately, this doesn’t lead to positive changes in the position of conflicting regional powers in Yemen to help reaching an inclusive peace agreement.
]]>https://en.smanews.org/the-great-failure-of-hadys-legitimacy-and-his-government/feed0To the Arab Coalition: No Excuses for Derecognitionhttps://en.smanews.org/to-the-arab-coalition-no-excuses-for-derecognition
https://en.smanews.org/to-the-arab-coalition-no-excuses-for-derecognition#respondSat, 04 Aug 2018 20:28:16 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7535

Ahmed Mosebeen

Southern Writer

As most southern territories are liberated during the last war launched by the north against the south, southern voices started demanding the Arab Coalition to fully recognize southern rights in restoring their state. some were overconfident to demand the Arab Coalition to separate the south from the north.
At that time, the excuse of southern voices advocating the Arab Coalition was that the Coalition was formed to restore legitimacy and return Hady to Sanaa. After that the southern cause can be discussed. Now, by the end of the fourth year of war, the following facts became clear:
• The legitimacy and Yemeni parties don’t have the will to liberate Sanaa
• Yemeni Armed Forces loyal to the legitimacy don’t desire to fight their northern brothers even if they are Houthis, pagans or Muslims.
• The legitimacy and Yemeni parties forgot all about Sanaa and headed to Aden to overturn it and the whole south.
For these facts and trends of the international society represented in UN Security Council, the last of which was preventing the Arab Coalition and southern troops from breaking in and liberating Al-Hodeida. Now, there is no excuse for Saudi Arabia and UAE not to recognize the right of the southern people in restoring their homeland and identity, unless they don’t want the southern people to restore their state.
]]>https://en.smanews.org/to-the-arab-coalition-no-excuses-for-derecognition/feed0From Aden … to Mr. Martin Griffith, Again!!https://en.smanews.org/from-aden-to-mr-martin-griffith-again
https://en.smanews.org/from-aden-to-mr-martin-griffith-again#respondFri, 03 Aug 2018 21:54:38 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7515

Dr. Abd Al-Nasser Al-Wali

Southern Politician

Dear Mr. Griffith:
Aden now is amid its darkest days in the last hundred years. While you are visiting Sanaa over and over again, Aden is violated over and over again. People are being killed for nothing. The day before, a son of my friend, Dr. Aref Ahmed Ali, expert of malaria and dengue fever, lost his leg without doing nothing. Many like him are being ruined and their future is destroyed. You go to Sanaa while electricity in Aden is cut off. You repeat your visit to Sanaa and in Aden, the largest store of wheat is closed, the store that sells bread of hungry citizens. You visit Sanaa again while sewer in Aden is blocked so that diseases and epidemics can spread and kill. In den, the salary is not enough to buy bread to live along the month. In Aden pencils are taller than loaves of French or Indian bread. In Aden, the humid summer is suffocating sick people who can not find fans or air conditioners and their only wish is a fan of palm leaves. You visit Sanaa while public transports in Aden stop as fuel prices increased in triple since your appointment. Since your appointment, Aden is being torn apart by systematic projects of strife that are devised in the dark away from you. You are in Sanaa, very far from Aden.

Dear Mr. Griffith:
Come to Aden so that the whole world can come with you and see unjust and unfair conditions under which we live. Or should we be mutineers, outlaws and coup forces threatening international navigation to come to us? We can never be so. But, do you want us to be so?

Dear Mr. Griffith:
The southern people is not a military, security or even economic map on the walls of your office that you can manage and change as like with colored pins. The southern people and people of Aden are not a chess board on your disk where you can move pieces as big ones’ desire while we, the pawns, die one after another.

Dear Mr. Griffith:
The southern people and people of Aden are not the strategic Bab Al-Mandeb Straights, Aden International Seaport, Shores of Arab Sea overseeing international trade paths nor hidden natural riches in the lands of Shabwa and Hadhramaut. We are humans, just like you. Your kingdom colonized us for 129 years and went away while we remained. We are of different color but we have the same feelings and need the same living rights. Talk about us, not about our lands, its geography, significance nor riches. We want to live, with or without these riches.

Dear Mr. Griffith:
Aden and the south were very optimistic with your appointment, not because your predecessor was bad, but because your country is member of UN Security Council and this may make your voice louder to be quickly heard. But you have to listen to us and know well that Aden became worse, darker, less hopeful and more frustrating. This will never create security, stability nor development in the future.

Dear Mr. Griffith:
Brothers of the northern people will never fight fiercely against Al-Houthis although they don’t support them and even reject their project. But you are offering them, as alternatives, persons, tools and system they have already tried and they will never accept them again. Help them to find ethically, socially and politically acceptable alternatives and this coup and war will stop immediately.

Dear Mr. Griffith:
Southern citizens winder every day, why is Sanaa nearly stable while Aden is not even close to stability? I can answer this question from my point of view. Here in Aden and the south, we don’t have any ambitions neither in Sanaa nor in any other city of the Arab Republic of Yemen. Therefore, we don’t seek to terrorize their people, disturb their security, destroy its infrastructure, disrupt their daily living or even call for foreign interference to impose a project of robbery and domination over them under a notion that touches feelings but is meant to be imposed forcefully through the power they are seeking now.

Dear Mr. Griffith:
Your problem is that you are talking in a diplomatic manner with those who pushed the country and people into four long years of war and destruction through their selfish and corrupt policies, and yet you want them to find a solution. They only know war. They only have war. So, what solution do you expect? You should talk to someone else as they have never been the people nor even representing them. they don’t know the people’s needs and expectations.

Dear Mr. Griffith:
People in the north and in the south are sick of a war they are almost extinct because of it. Relieve them of this misery. Help the north to restore a state where they can live on their own way of life even if you treat them harshly for some time. Let us in the south to live as we wish and as we can. Stop being harsh to us as we really ran out of patience. They will not surrender and neither will us. So, what would you do?

Ahmed Al-Rubaizi

Southern Writer and Politician

UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, is consulting with all Yemeni parties to end the war and establish bases for negotiation to solve the Yemeni crisis. Consultations are held away from participation of southern powers as active powers on the ground in addition to marginalizing the role of southern transitional council in stopping the war and post-war arrangements. This is not serving the final solution as the southern people are active powers on the ground that can help solving all issues. Any solution that doesn’t recognize the reality after expelling Al-Houthi / Affash occupation in 2015 will do no good. The south and its cause are now powers that can not be ignored.
Ignoring the southern cause and southern people by any party including UN, represented by it envoy Martin Griffith, the legitimacy of president Hady or Al-Houthi coup militias, will never serve peace, security and stability of Yemen or the region. Instead, it will make things worse and will never solve problems of the region.
What is said behind the scenes that both parties of Yemeni conflict (legitimacy and coup), don’t accept the southern transitional council as partner in negotiations to end the war is a very limited act. Absence of the south and its real representatives is exhausting the mission of UN envoy. It is not strange to see Al-Houthis refusing the southern people and their transitional council as we all know that Al-Houthi coup militias are the fierce enemy of the south and its cause as the militias have their own agendas to create stress and conflicts in the south just to weaken its brave resistance that defeated them in 2015.
What is really strange is the refusal of president Hady to host a representative of the southern cause during upcoming negotiations. In this case, the president will lose a strong supporter who can save him from the crisis he puts himself in, or even imposed to him under certain previous conditions. This string supporter is the one capable of holding the southern cause towards a solution that satisfies the southern people, as southern people will never accept any projects that deny them their natural right of self-determination and restore their independent state. In my opinion, Hady’s refusal of the southern transitional council as a representative of the southern people in any negotiations will lead to a fragile agreement as the active southern partner is absent. This will exhaust the mission of UN envoy and lead matters to an undesired direction.
]]>https://en.smanews.org/absence-of-the-south-exhausts-griffiths-mission/feed0The Year of Shabwa Eliteshttps://en.smanews.org/the-year-of-shabwa-elites
https://en.smanews.org/the-year-of-shabwa-elites#respondThu, 02 Aug 2018 23:23:52 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7489

Ahmed Al-Hur

Southern Journalist

For years, and until only one year ago, Shabwa suffered a catastrophic security loose. Roads linking Etq, the governorate’s capital, to Al-Makla and Al-Wadeea crossing were crime scenes for daily robberies and endless suffering of passengers. Azzan, Al-Houta, Yashbam and Al-Musainea were strongholds for terrorist groups even that Azzan was declared an emirate under Al-Qaeda. Al-Runda of Bihan was storage ground for smuggling drugs and African migrants. Tribal revenges disrupted citizens’ security to the degree that no sigle week could pass without at least one killing incident for revenge or minor conflicts.
On August 3rd, 2017, when Shabwa Elites troops were deployed in the directorates, represented a qualitative leap of security and development as it had a positive effect on citizens’ lives. These are examples of what the troops achieved in one year:
• Controlling directorates of Radoum, Maifaa, Al-Rouda, Habban, Gardan, Armaa. Dahar and Al-Talh.
• Securing passengers on Al-Obar – Etq and Al-Makla – Etq roads
• Eliminating drug dealing
• Full control over Al-Houta, the major stronghold of Al-Qaeda (no other military troops entered Al-Houta since 2010).
• Arresting tens of terrorists, robbers and drug dealers
• Activating ban of arms 100% in a very short time (no such decisions were active since the union).
• Full control over Etq exits
• Full control over Al-Saeed directorate, including Yashbam and Al-Musainea (no other military troops entered it since the union except for Al-Houthis for a few hours before being expelled).
• Full elimination of security miss leading to revenge incidents.
• Trade was affected positively and markets became more active
• Stable security situation enabled UAE Red Crescent and other humanitarian aids organizations to work effectively without fear.
The only remaining request of Shabwa citizens is that Shabwa Elites to be deployed in Etq to control it and continue deployment in other directorates to keep security.
]]>https://en.smanews.org/the-year-of-shabwa-elites/feed0Leave the South Alone…https://en.smanews.org/leave-the-south-alone
https://en.smanews.org/leave-the-south-alone#respondThu, 02 Aug 2018 22:41:00 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7486

Yasser Al-Saidi Al-Kazemi

Southern Media Activist

Social media is full of thousands of tweets and posts that try to nail the south and its rightful cause. Those tweeters and posters, either normal persons or journalists, are mercenaries who don’t understand the principles of peaceful struggle and liberation of homelands.
They publish to confuse the situation and make Aden and other Southern areas look like a jungle where the strong eats the weak. They are trying to frustrate men who work restlessly day and night to secure Aden. So, their security work is synchronized with dirty terrorist acts that kill innocent citizens including Imams and other southern figures.
This is a systematic plan to make Aden look like a primitive village so that tabloid papers and fifth column can broadcast their lies and dirty rumors against the south. What matters for those mercenaries is to gain money at the expense of martyrs sacrifices and injured wounds. They send messages as advisors while they are the fiercest enemies of the south. They want to destroy the south according to their masters’ agendas. They gain their dirty money from inside and outside. They are paid by countries, intelligence agencies and others just to publish their falsifications. This is the regular work of the fifth column.
To them we say: stop working against your country. Stop feeding sectarian strife among southern citizens. Honorable southern citizens will never abandon their request of liberating the whole south.
What you do is ineffective nonsense that we will drop out. The southern people are now grown-ups and you can not force them to abandon their goal of liberation and independence. You can go to hill or to the history dumps. Leave the south alone as the south has his men who will never fail the bloods of martyrs as long as they live.
]]>https://en.smanews.org/leave-the-south-alone/feed0Truth Can Never Be Hidden Even If You Pay!!https://en.smanews.org/truth-can-never-be-hidden-even-if-you-pay
https://en.smanews.org/truth-can-never-be-hidden-even-if-you-pay#respondWed, 01 Aug 2018 21:19:45 +0000https://en.smanews.org/?p=7467

Mohamed Al-Gunaidy

Southern Writer

It is normal that everyone understands the public mobilization behind the southern transitional council. Nothing strange in seeing thousands of supporters behind the council along the whole south as people realize that the council has a fair and rightful cause, a public goal to achieve and a clear political project.
It is also normal to see the legitimacy, deliberately, dedicating a massive amount of its financial resources in buying certain writers to cover its corruption and failure. Also, nothing strange for an authority that exhausted the resources of a nation just to fell the pockets of its officials inside the country and in hotels of foreign countries, to spend a few more on those who have no principles, values or cause.
What is abnormal is that this authority and its bought writers may think that they can create an opinion or falsify an awareness by which then can block people’s vision and convince them that everything is ok while life becomes even more bitter every day.
People used to visit each other regularly. Now, if you think to visit a relative in Sheikh Othman, you need 6000 Riyals as a taxi fare from Hafoun to Omar Mukhtar and back. Now tweet with me as you don’t see!!
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